After worrying that my trip abroad may not provide the sort of science-fictional entertainment that I’m accustomed to, I should’ve realised: if there’s something nerdy
Tag: science fiction
Weekend of the Nerds
It was my last weekend in Perth before I head off to Germany/Turkey for five weeks, so I decided that extra nerdiness was required, just
Words of Other Worlds (Part 1)
There are robots and extraterrestrials, androids and cyborgs, hyperdrives and wormholes. Characters beam Earthside and chat over commlinks; meanwhile, in cyberspace, digitized avatars and AI routines
Does science fiction need plausible science?
Some debates are just doomed to be repeated ad infinitum. One that seems to pop up on my radar every few months is the question
Review: The Martian, by Andy Weir
It’s not often that I read novels in the same year that they were published – my usual reading interests are very much based in the nineteenth
In Defence of Spirituality
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar has come under attack for its conflated vision of science and spirituality, and an ending which suggests that love is a certifiable force
Andrew R. Cameron 